Motivational Intent in the Sexual Assault of Children
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This study analyzes 74 preadult victims' accounts of sexual assault and 137 convicted child offenders' accounts of sexual assault. Two types of child assault were identified: sex-pressure, which was achieved by offender enticement and/or entrapment of the child into sexual activity; and sex-force, where the victim was forced to submit to the assault through exploitation, intimidation, and/or aggression. Life issues of dominance, power, authority, control, aggression, and sadism were present in varying degrees of intensity in the assault.
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Sexual grooming has already been described for hands-on offenders in the pre-Internet era.
“Sexual grooming is thus a common epiphenomenon of child sexual abuse that has already been described for hands-on offenders in the pre-Internet era.”
From 3.2 Sexual Online Grooming of Children – A Short Overview of the Offender Literature (2025) · cites this paper as Groth & Burgess, 1977
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- Authors
- Groth, A. N., & Burgess, A. W.
- Affiliations
- Harrington Memorial Hospital, Southbridge, Massachusetts
- Boston College (US)
- ORCID
- Burgess, Ann Wolbert
- Venue
- Correctional Psychologist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1977-09
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 253-264
- ISSN
- 0589-8218 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1974149813
- Cited by
- 47
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 3.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Correctional Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Military, Security, and Education Studies
- Keywords
- child sexual abuse, entrapment, exploitation, intimidation, sadism, power and control, aggression, juvenile offenders
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